Rib for shotguns



Filed March 25 1925 l j 1 N i EN TOR. $2;

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Patented Get. 19, 1926.

iUNlTE STTES PATENT STEEEHEN J. GILLES, OF FULTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE HUNTER ARMS 00., INC OF FULTON, NEVT YORK, A COR'PORATION OF NEW YORK.

BIB FOR SHOTGUNS.

Application filed March 25, 1925.

This invention relates to double barrel guns as shot guns and has for its object a particularly simple and efiicient construction and arrangement of the ventilated sighting rib therefor.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and construe tions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

gure 1 is a plan view, partly broken awry, of a pair of shot gun barrels embodying my invention.

igure 2 is an end view thereof. higure 3 is a side elevation partly in section.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 4l4, Figure 3.

This double barrel gun comprises a pair of barrels, means for securing the barrels to gether including a ventilated sighting rib, the upper surface of which is located above the topmost surface of the barrel.

In shot guns, the barrels have heretofore 1, 1,- 1 been connected together by a 11b located for the most part below a horizontal plane tangent to the topmost surfaces of the barrels so that the upper surface of the sighting rib is located between the barrels or is in the form of a groove extending bet-ween the barrels below the topmost surfaces thereof especially toward the muzzle ends of the barrels and this rib being of a mass of metal affect-ed and warped more or less by the heat from the barrel so that the accuracy in I iting the gun is upset.

lily my invention, a ventilated rib is so located that it is not materially affected by the heat of the gun or is cooled so that it maintains its accuracy or straightness.

In my double barrel gun, the means for securing the barrels 1 together includes a bottom rib 2 and a top rib, the former being arran ed between the barrels below the centers thereof or below a horizontal plane intersecting the centers thereof, the bottom rib 2 being secured to the barrels as by brazing or any other form of welding.

1 Si S Serial No. 18,109.

3 is the top rib which includes a base or web secured to the barrels above the centers thereof and to the surfaces of the barrels where they diverge away from each other, a top sighting strip 5 extending above the base i and spaced apart therefrom, and posts or studs 6 connecting the base and the strip at intervals leaving ventilating slots 7.

Preferably, the studs or posts 6 are in tegral with the web i and the strip 5 and are of less thickness transversely or of less width than the web and the strip. The web or base l is secured to the barrels by brazing or any other form of welding and the posts 6 and the strip extend above the topmost surfaces of the barrel, the sighting strip being arranged entirely above the topmost sur faces of the barrels. The ventilated rib terminates in its rear end in a block 8, and its upper surface is arranged flush with an extension 9 secured to the barrels. The ventilated rib terminates at its front end in a nozzle block 10.

Owing to this construction and arrangement of the sighting rib it is notwarped by the heat generated in the barrels and warping is further prevented by its open construction which permits it to cool rapidly.

What I claim is:

l. A double barrel gun comprising a pair of barrels and an elevated sighting rib arranged between the upper portions of the barrels and including a portion arranged near the level of the uppermost surfaces of the barrels and another portion spaced apart from the former portion and located a distance above the plane of the upp rmost portion of the barrels.

2. A double barrel gun comprising a pair of barrels and a sighting rib including a portion arranged between the upper opposing diverging walls of the barrels and a portion spaced apart from the former portion and located above the horizontal plane of the uppermost surfaces of the. barrels.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Fulton, in the county of Oswego, and in the State of New York, this 12 day of March, 1925.

STEPHEN J. GILLES. 

